Month: November 2017

The failure of the US men’s national soccer team to qualify for the 2018 World Cup has upended a lot of things, including the US Soccer Federation presidential election. I often suggest lessons managers and organizations can learn from soccer. The upcoming Federation election offers a rare opportunity to do the reverse. I’m a…

“I think the task [of improving the success of the US men’s national soccer team] is a lot more complicated than people want to give it credit for. People want to believe it’s simple. It’s been a failing at U.S. Soccer that we’ve always had this attitude that if we just discover the one thing…

There are a number of lessons for managers and organizations can take away from the United States Men’s National Team’s appalling defeat to Trinidad and Tobago, a loss that means the US will not qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1986. The US Men’s National Team faced two critical games in a week,…